Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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: 7a i:i to these, there is a spacious reading room supplied with the important cur- rent magazines and newspapers. V. M. I. offers four courses: Civil, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering and Liberal Arts. A degree of Bachelor of Science is granted to those men who complete one of the first three courses, while the Bachelor of Arts degree is granted those who complete the latter. It has been a policy to apply all avail- able resources to the advancement of these courses rather than to institute new ones. A slight variation of sub- jects permits a student of chemistry to convert his line of study into an excel- lent pre-medical course. The Institute is accredited as a technological college by a j» A ' fW ' the American Association of Colleges W It and Universities. f jL - m V. M. I. is represented in the world ■■■S ' llH ' iU ' iffflfTf.j ' ; today by graduates prominent in practi- cally every line of endeavor. One may find V. M. I. men in all fields, from the ministry to the army, from the screen to all brarches of engineering, from business to politics. ■ In looking over the list of famous V. M. I. alumni, one encounters the names of such men as Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, explorer and author, Brigadier-General Samuel D. Rockenbach, organizer and leader of the United States Tank Corps during the World War, Ken Maynard and Jack Holt of movie fame; Howard Bruce, nation- ally prominent financier and corporation head, and William Isham Randolph, active crime abolitionist in Chicago. In athletics. V. M. I. is able to put better than average teams on the field. Although the Institute is one of the smallest schools in the Southern Conference, the wearers of the red, white, and yellow have been recognized among the outstanding athletes in Dixie. In recent years, the wrestling teams have had remarkable success. The V. M. I. of today is. perhaps, yesterday ' s dream of the greater V. M. I. Her ambition today is to give to her future cadets the foundation for an even greater V. M. I. Rear-Admiral Byfd

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|:I The Institute, 1933 Facing one another from opposite sides of the road, immediately to the east of barracks, are Scott-Shipp Hall and Maury-Brooke Hall. The former houses the headquarters of the department of arts, pure mathematics, and physics. The lower floors of this building contain physics and biology laboratories, while the attic floor contains the Institute radio station. Maury-Brooke Hall, better known as the Chemistry Building, houses all branches of the chemistry course. This building is equipped with chemical and geological laboratories. • The most recent addition to the various academic buildings is the Edward West Nichols Engineering Hall completed in 1931. This building is the center of the civil and electrical engineering courses. It rises six stories from the ground and is one of the best equipped buildings of its kind in the United States today, containing a completely equipped electrical laboratory controlled from a central switchboard, hydraulics demonstration room, a materials testing laboratory, and a newly installed thermodynamics laboratory. In addition to these, there are a machine shop and an arc welding room. All of these laboratories are equipped with the most modern devices, and they offer the cadet practical applications in all phases of his courses. Display rooms, containing model bridges, dams, and the like, adjoin their respective rooms of application. The drawing academy occupies the entire sixth floor, and it is especially designed for the comfort and convenience of the draftsman. Three limes daily, the corps forms by companies and marches down the hill to the Mess Hall. This structure, done in the same style architecture as the other Institute buildings, is a thoroughly ventilated hall, seventy-five feet in length and one hundred and fifteen feet in width. It is equipped in the rear with kitchens, bake rooms, a refrigerating plant, and storerooms. Natural gas is utilized as fuel. North of barracks and facing the parade ground is that favorite retreat, the Library. Here the cadet has thirty thousand volumes at his disposal. In addition I twWrT asqBBaeii

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